MEN OF LEARNING AND GENIUS. 599 



S13 Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, poisoned himself. Leland. Francis. 



288 Theophratus, the Greek philosopher, and scholar of Aristotle. Budget. 



285 Theocritus, the first Greek pastoral poet, fl. Fawkes. 



277 Euclid, of Alexandria in Egypt, the mathematician, ti. R. Simson. 



270 Epicurus, founder of the Epicurean philosophy in Greece. 



264 Xeno, founder of the stoic philosophy in ditto. 



244 Callimachus, the Greek elegiac poet. Tytler. 



208 Archimedes, the Greek geometrician. 



184 PlautuSj the Roman comic poet. Thornton. 



159 Terence, of Carthage, the Latin comic poet. Colman. 



155 Diogenes, of Babylon, the stoic philosopher. 



124 Polybius, of Greece, the Greek and Roman historian. Hampton. 



54 Lucretius, the Roman poet. Creech. 



44 Julius Caesar, the Roman historian and commentator, killed. Duncan. 

 Diodorus Siculus, of Greece, the universal historian, fl. Booth. 

 Yitruvius, the Roman architect, fl. 



43 Cicero, the Roman orator and philosopher, put to death. Guthrie. Melmotk, 

 Cornelius Nepos, the Roman biographer, fl. Roioe. 



34 Sallust, the Roman historian. Gordon. Rowe. 



30 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the Roman historian, fl. Spelman. 



19 Virgil, the Roman epic poet. Dry den. Pitt. Warton. 



11 Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertus, Roman poets. Grainger. Dart. 

 8 Horace, the Roman lyric and satiric poet. Francis. 

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17 Livy, the Roman historian. Hay. 



19 Ovid, the Roman elegiac poet. Garth. 



20 Celsus, the Roman philosopher and physician, fl. Grieve. 

 25 Strabo, the. Greek geographer. 



43 Phsedrus, the Roman fabulist. Smart. 



95 faterculus, the Roman historian, fl. Neu-come. 



62 Persius, the Roman satiric poet. Brewster. . 



65 Quintus Curtius, a Roman historian of Alexander the Great, fl. Digby. 



Seneca, of Spain, the philosopher and tragic poet, put to death. U Estrange. 

 65 Lucan, the Roman epic poet. Roive. 

 79 Pliny the elder, the Roman historian. Holland. 



93 Josephus, the Jewish historian. Whiston. 



94 Epictetus, the Greek stoic philosopher, fl. Mrs. Carter. 



95 Quintilian, the Roman orator and advocate. Guthrie. 



96 Statius, the Roman epic poet. Lewis. 



98 Lucius Florus, of Spain, the Roman historian, fl. 



99 Tacitus, the Roman historian. Gordon. Murphy. 

 104 Martial, of Spain, the epigrammatic poet. Hay. 



Valerius Flaccus, the Roman epic poet. 



116 Pliny the younger, historical letters. Melmoth. Orrery. 



117 Suetonius, the Roman historian. Hugltes. Thomson. 



118 Plutarch, of Greece, the biographer Dryden. Langhorne. 

 128 Juvenal, the Roman satiric poet. Dryden. 



140 Ptolemy, the Egyptian geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, fl. 



150 Justin, the Roman historian, fl. Turnbull. 



161 Arrian, the Roman historian and philosopher, fl. Rooke. 



167 Justin, of Samaria, the oldest Christian author after the apostles. 



180 Lucian, the Roman philologer. Dimsdaie. Dryden. Franklin. Car. 



Marcus Aur. Antonius, Roman emperor and philosopher. Collier. Elphinstone. 

 193 Gallen the Greek philosopher and physician. 

 200 Diogenes Lxrtius, the Greek biographer, fl. 

 229 Dion Cassius, of Greece, the Roman historian, fl. 

 354 Origin, a Christian father, of Alexandria. 



Herodian, of Alexandria, the Roman historian, fl. Hart. 

 258 Cyprian, of Carthage, suffered martyrdom. Marshall. 

 273 Longinus, tl>e Greek orator, put to death by Aurelian. Smith, 

 320 Lactantius, a father of the church, fl. 



\rius, a priest of Alexandria, founder of the,.sect of Arians. 

 342 Eusebius, the ecclesiastical historian and chronologer. J/nnmer. 

 379 Basil, bishop of Cacsarea. 



Gregory Nsziaazen, bishop of Constantinople, 



